The Hundredth Meridian: Seasons and Travels in the New Old West

From the back cover of The Hundredth Meridian by Chilton Williamson: The Old West of the frontier, pioneer, and post-pioneer generations was an elemental place that 20th-century America, by mythologizing it (for ideological and commercial purposes, mainly), has succeeded in transforming into an object of sophisticated postmodern ridicule. Nevertheless, it continues to persist beneath—even, in certain places, above—its abstracted replacement, though for how much longer I cannot tell, nor want to.